Sunday, November 30, 2008

Hans Rosling: Myths about the developing world

Hans Rosling: Myths about the developing world

An interesting use of technology!!

have a good week!

welcome to the newest members of our blog!

james

Saturday, November 29, 2008

2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year | dotSUB

2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year | dotSUB:

"2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year"

Here you don't really need subtitles!

What do you think?

VOA News in Regular English - Recent Stories - Text & MP3

VOA News in Regular English - Recent Stories - Text & MP3:
"VOA News in Regular English - Recent Stories - Text & MP3"

For upper-intermediate students...

Here you have recent news stories you can listen to. They're read in normal English (not VOA Special English). You can read the text and click on any words you don't understand. (You can also download the files.)

HTH

james

(leave a comment to say if you think it's interesting!)

American Stories - Text & MP3 (VOA Special English)

American Stories - Text & MP3 (VOA Special English):

"American Stories - Read While Listening to MP3 Files"

This is an interesting selection of American short stories for intermediate and lower-intermediate students to listen to as they read the text. The stories are read very slowly and clearly. (All the VOA special English content is like that.) The original texts have been edited to make the English more contemporary and easier to understand. In this collection each word of the texts are clickable so you can see a definition.

You can also download the Mp3 files and listen to them on an Mp3 player.


all the best

james

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Obama's Victory Speech | dotSUB

Obama's Victory Speech | dotSUB

this is a really nice site... lots of good... subtitled video...
james

Friday, November 14, 2008

Look at this!

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/11/crystal-giants/crystals-photography

=)
Hi everyone,





Here are some interesting links about Networks
http://www.networkworld.com/
http://www.comsoc.org/dl/net/
http://www.networkcomputing.com/

http://network-tools.com/
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html

and ............
a different kind of network http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/ jijijijijijiji

Have a nice weekend

Jeff Bezos Interview -- Academy of Achievement

Jeff Bezos Interview -- Academy of Achievement

I'm sure you've all heard of Amazon.com... this is the man who created it!

This site is full of interesting video and interviews with achievers in many different fields... music, but also science, literature... etc...

(and there's even the scripts for the video excerpts! :-) )

Have a look. Leave a comment to say what you think of it...

see you next week... have a nice weekend!

james

ps... you should be getting this as email on the network mailing list... the link to the Academy of Achievement site is in the message but at the bottom of the message you should have a link back to your blog....

Do it! Don't be a lurker.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Ted Talks!

Dear All,

http://www.ted.com/talks -

This is an incredible selection of 20 minute talks given by
specialists in their area - music, science, politics, fun,
comedy ... you name it.

I'm sure you'll find something of interest!

Lorna

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Some fun for everybody...

Hello everybody,

Here is a funny website :

http://www.angryalien.com/

There are some funny parodies for movie addicts

Have fun ;)

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Hello

Hello everybody,

I don't know if this site will be useful for you but there are English tests :

http://www.anglaisfacile.com/test_niveau_anglais.php

The site is French but you've got some links to game, articles...

See you ;)

A new world

Hello everyone,

Well, I told you we'd be living in a new world next time we met. It is indeed a new dawn, is it not? Do you think this will have any effect on your personal world?

Here is a link to the great speeches we heard this week:

President Elect Obama's acceptance speech (with interactive script)

John McCain's concession speech
(with interactive script)


Monday, November 3, 2008

The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia

The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia

This is the site where once you click-through to an article you can click on a word and get the definition and also hear the pronunciation...

What do you think??? The video on this site is also great! (But unfortunately not subtitled....)
Look in the politics section and you can watch the campaign ads. The Pogue videos in technology are also funny.

The IT Crowd - Yesterday's Jam

The IT Crowd - Yesterday's Jam

this is a funny British sitcom! about Nerds and their new manager....


Here is a link to the script of the first episode

WhatIs.com definitions, computer terms, tech glossaries and cheat sheets - We are the leading online tech dictionary and encyclopedia

WhatIs.com definitions, computer terms, tech glossaries and cheat sheets - We are the leading online tech dictionary and encyclopedia

this is a nice reference site...

International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions

International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions

here you can ask the IHT to read to you... or to provide translations for each word on a page....

welcome!

Welcome to our world....

telecomparistechMSnetwork blog!